Collection Items
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 1 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] WPA L of C Project MORD NO0 Form4 1 Origin WRITERS UNIT Inventory t3heet 1 carbon required NotIling on mss to indicate the source city and state in which record was prepared...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 2 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] I I IPA L If G Prijast Tema 1 MU NM 3110 unsay UNIT laveatirty awe 1 atalaa isgalsied Nothing on mai to indicate the souroo Isar eat state la marl pepairogr...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 3 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] 7 Reesens for decision 4 Quality of writing TTA I of C rroject RECORD O Forr3 WRITERS UNIT Appraisal Sheet 1 earlen required A rubber worker name not given 1 Sourees of...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 4 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] 7 Reasons for decision ILA L of C Project RECORD NO Form 3 WRITSRS UNIT Appraisal Sheet 1 carbon required 1 Seurees of data A rubber worker name not given nano and...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 5 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] o Mark Leiberman Revised March 16 1939 Feb 23 1939 Final Revision April 13 1930 rrixat RUBBER WORMER I never thought Id get used to the smell Rubber sulpher blackingpgcsmicals combined produce...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 6 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] 1 repeat no loss at all In New England most of 111 are rubber footwear workers and we turn out no less than tworthirds of our countrys boots and shoes Mostly we...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 7 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] Now each one of us performs only an almost in significant portion of the work on each shoe Same motions over and over again all day long Those who roll the rubbers...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 8 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] was 36 or 38 pairs a day and when you finished you went home A good man when he got half a breaks finished his days work at half past two or...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 9 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] S more simplifiedlit became easier to 4gfeak in new hands bung girls and boys Just out of school were hired to work alonrside experienced shoemakers who couldnt amil forget that they onche...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 10 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] h the big hydraulic cutting Machine in the corner4md to cut the stuff with a sharp knife and use plenty of elbow gluess Now the comp4id man tips a b onto the...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 11 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] how to tell the difference between a pound and seventeen ounces on a precision scale Theres one respect in which compounding hasnt changed at all Thats chemical dust The air is thick...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 12 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] was more than one thing in it at all Then a trap is released and the mi2ture falls like so much black dough onto the floor below Put a lot of fellows...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 13 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] The calendar eperato his one of the most skilled best paid and most highly respected jobs in the plant A foremen will often raise the very devil with a helper in the...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 14 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] piece of outsole sheeting into the eutting machine and zipiLtherelsifour solosojeady The seles are placed on CArtAd sAra44 a belt and IaiEiiYiWá of th scud downA to the work man who bodice...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 15 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] its employees all a rubber shop Production sure goes on with a maddening speed and ceaselessness Sometimes earlier departments are late in delivering pieces of stock to the conveyor or for some...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 16 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] The pace is set by the conveyor and everyone does his utmost to keep up with it as well as with everyone else The two asters sit at a table at the...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 17 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] conveyor Then they made the change The hourly rates still the same but theres a mach smaller bonus in cutting gum shoe uppers aft Well thats how it is They catch up...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 18 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] to take the blame for bolding back the work Theres that girl that works on the gaiter team downstairs It was a real hot day last summer I guess she wasnt feeling...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 19 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] pay day a collection is taken for someone whos sick when theres a death or maybe when someone loses a pay envelope dAerybody chips ia No they dont really dislike each other...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 20 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] yoUlef shoe a split second after gems through with the one youre working on You get your whole mind and body adjusted to doing the same thing over and over again without...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 21 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] each morning than they can easily handle Some girls wrists are so sore they work in constant pain all day tolvVG There are fingers so worn from pulling at aseegh rubber ized...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 22 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] up that rubber workers complain A couple of fellows wrote a book about rubber and the rubber industry They had this question right down to a Ty sols everybody could understand it...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 23 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] t Pv ifr 1t4 more abuse from their foreman than theyd ever take from anyone else without taking a whack at them Like the time this Italian fellow was loading gaiters His...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 24 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] that have someone to be afraid of however That same foremaneath of his awn superiors When hes told that the superintendent or worse still the resident of the factor71is going to make...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 25 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] something about sending the kid to school Funny huh Now fourteen or fifteen years later hes plenty glad if he can only get the kid a job in the plant Yeah everybodys...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 26 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] 641441 tiok j1itev overage_ y temis oh hoop heb4e r4ge3iS tbe 741E1 Ansi b I payale_ shed u IA 41 down to 4211 an hour Fhan 4G 66ar 4_44o 774 7 The...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 27 of [Told by a Rubber Worker] evening befo 7are stripped and trimmed in the packing tf44f room tnickers fill hundreds of baskets ist lasts to be used next day The mills turn on through the night in care...
- Contributor: Leiberman, Mark
- Date: 1939-02-23